A civilizing crusade against Africa? THE African Union (AU), an intergovernmental organization involving the majority of countries on the continent, held an extraordinary meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss their relations with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Of the 54 African nations, 34 are represented in the ICC. However, many of them have criticized the court for its ...

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  AFTER criticizing the film The Fifth Estate, based on his life story, for not adhering to the facts, Julian Assange has revealed the truth about his life in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, which granted him political asylum. In a 90-minute Skype interview, reported by the UK Telegraph newspaper, a pale and slim Assange stated, "Of course it's difficult to wake up for 500 days and see the ...

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By Nicole Ostrow - Oct 21, 2013 3:00 PM ET Children raised in poverty or in orphanages experience chronic stress early in life that can have long-lasting effects on the brain, setting them up for future mental and physical ailments as adults, two studies found. The stress of poverty may affect regions in a child's brain that control emotion, according to research published today in the journal ...

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The Jamaica labor party is trying hard to decide which one of these two gentlemen is best suited to give the bitter medicine to the Jamaican people. Audley Shaw in various interviews opined that the government should use the IMF funds to pay the bond holders (Private Sector) while Mr. Holness warned the country to prepare for the bitter taste that will follow after taking the IMF medicine. The ...

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 by Norman Markowitz In 2003, Irish film-makers released a remarkable on the spot documentary about the attempt by rightist elements to overthrow Hugo Chavez democratically elected government in Venezuela. The Bush administration supported that failed coup and gave sanctuary to some of its plotters The documentary was titled "The Revolution will not be televised." I thought of that ...

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The International Monetary Fund recently gave Jamaica a passing grade for its adherence to the goals set out by this organization for receiving funds. Historically, all recipients of IMF funds usually end up in a bankrupt state. Africa is a vivid example of the results of this type of economic medicine which net result is to keep your economy tied to the imperial empire and subservient to their ...

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  Abdel Bari Atwan WELCOME to the new Libya, a country 'liberated' by NATO which now finds itself without the oil revenues which could make it rich, with no security, no stability and assassinations and corruption at unprecedented levels. last Friday [September 13], the Economist magazine published a report about the implosion of Libya. My attention was caught by the pictures that ...

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Only three days ago, a high-ranking leader from the Vietnamese Communist Party visited us. Before leaving, he conveyed to me his wish that I write some recollections of my visit to the territory of Vietnam liberated in its heroic fight against the yankee troops in the south of his country. I do not really have much time available, when a large part of the world is striving to seek a response to ...

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  On behalf of the peace loving people of Jamaica, the Jamaica Patriotic Movement welcome the agreement reached between the United States of America and Russia in reducing the prospect of War. This is an example of what the approach of dialogue and respect between countries can produce. This sole act should be the basis of negotiating the removal of all chemical and nuclear weapon from the ...

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IMPERIAL CRUSADE AGAINST SYRIAWritten by : Sánchez Serra WHY is the United States attacking Syria? Brazil, Russia – reborn as a superpower and an uncomfortable one – India and China – are emerging economies that are already acting as leaders on the world geopolitical stage. It is said that India and China, also the most populated nations of the world, will mark the rate of development ...

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By Zachary KarabellAugust this year has been exceptionally unkind to the emerging world. We know that Egypt has been plunged into political and economic turmoil, yet that is only the most extreme case. Elsewhere, stories proliferate about economic slowdowns in Peru and China, and protests in Brazil and Turkey (among others).Yet rather than viewing these events in the larger context of the past ...

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Press Release by: Jamaica Peace Council Thursday, September 05, 2013 Dear, Editor, The Jamaica Peace Council calls on Barack Obama, president of the United States of America, to live up to his Nobel Peace Prize and his anti-war pronouncements prior to taking office by cancelling all plans to invade Syria. The US has no moral grounds for invading that country and has shown a track record of bloody ...

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By: David Commissiong. As a law student at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the WestIndies, I made a study of Public International Law. And I am not awareof ANY principle of International Law that would confer upon theUnited States of America the right to inflict a punitive missileattack on the nation of Syria in the currently prevailingcircumstances. My understanding of International ...

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The Jamaica Peace Council calls on Barack Obama, President of the United States of America to live up to his Nobel Peace Prize and his anti-war pronouncements prior to taking office by cancelling all plans to invade Syria. The US has no moral grounds for invading that country and has shown a track record of bloody wars initiated under false pretenses for the sole purpose of dominating other ...

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By:Socorro Gomes, President of World Peace Council (WPC) and Cebrapaz (Brazil) For more than two years, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Zionist regime of Israel, the reactionary monarchies of the Middle East and Turkey has supported with weapons and money mercenaries. They are terrorists which under the nickname of "rebels" have converted the Syrian streets and cities into a ...

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The Jamaican government have declare that our country have passed the first round of evaluation by the international monetary fund. This multilateral lending agency with its headquarters in the United States of America gives good grade when you sell all your prize assets at steep discount, reduce educational funding, downgrade your public services, pay very low wages, reduce government ...

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The Obama administration during this period of celebrating the historical march on Washington and remembering the disaster that befell the majority of mostly poor blacks of Louisiana, due to the lack of and disregard of life by the Bush administration, is about to attack the sovereign state of Syria. Obama, a Nobel prize recipient and a constitional law professor will be ignoring the will of the ...

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By: Roberto Castellanos IN their fight for the vindication of their peoples and the search for justice, the Caribbean nations are to demand from their former metropolises economic and moral reparations for slavery, the genocide of their peoples, and the colonial practices to which they were subjected. The cornerstone of this demand was affirmed during the 34th Summit of the Caribbean Community ...

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By David Brooks ALMOST everyone talks about how they believed in the official rhetoric of their country, in the mission of the United States as the global guardian of democracy, as the beacon of liberating hope, as an example for humanity. Almost everyone remembers that is why they joined the ranks of intelligence agencies, the military, the State Department or the FBI. And remember when, with ...

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On Behalf of our people the Jamaica Patriotic Movement wishes you long life and energy to fullfill your mandate of defending our right to choose our path of national development and world peace.It is befitting that we will let you state in your own words the birth dates of ...

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